Clown parachutes
Posted on | March 9, 2007 | Comments Off
So Bob Rae is being parachuted into Toronto Centre (doesn’t he live in the Parkdale area?) and Martha Hall Findlay is being dropped on the good folks in Willowdale. How very nice nice of the ‘naturally governing party” to practice such AWESOME democracy.
Make no mistake, Bob Rae WILL win the riding unless the NDP run a strong candidate. But they MUST run a strong candidate federally against him. Findlay will probably also win.
You can be sure the Libs aren’t going to caught with their knickers showing like they did in the York-South Weston provincial by-election, when they told one prospective candidate that he needn’t bother running because they already had a candidate. They lost to New Democrat Paul Ferreira.
This time around, they’ll make sure their parachuted pets win, but they’ll do it subtly – probably by sending in staffers and party hacks to work on their campaigns. Money might also find itself in secret pockets of the parachutes. Election laws be damned. Ahhhhh, life is good.
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